Geek to Live: Carry your life on a thumb drive (or iPod) - Lifehacker

[q]When I think back to the first computer I had with a hard drive bigger than a gigabyte (“I’ll never run out of space now!”) I have to laugh. Nowadays you can get 8 gigabytes of disk hanging on your key ring, not to mention all the gigabytage we tote around on our iPods.

Portable applications and creative uses for USB drives and other external hard drives have come a long way in the last year or so. Today I’ll go over some of the more practical uses and techniques for managing your data on the go with a portable drive./q]